The Fizzle Show, our podcast for creative entrepreneurs, is now live and ready for your ears, hearts and minds! We will release a new episode every day this week. Be sure to subscribe to get the next episode in your sleep.

Selling what you make online is more complex and frustrating than it should be. Platforms like iTunes and Kindle take a huge cut of your profits, well-known payment processors freeze funds with no explanation, and most shopping cart software looks like it was built in the 90's.

You know the rush. A guest post you’ve written goes live on a huge site, you finally launch the product you’ve been working on for months, or an older article of yours gets Gizmodo’d. You watch your traffic spike and you can’t peel yourself away from the analytics for the whole day.

We've been busy over at Fizzle in the past couple of months and I wanted to share some exciting news with you. If you haven't heard about Fizzle yet, we call it "Honest Online Business Training." We think it's the best training library and community for online business builders anywhere.

In my first couple of startups, I built things in the traditional order: product first, then audience. With Think Traffic, I started blogging first, then figured out which products and services to deliver to the audience that gathered here.

Launching a podcast is no small feat, but you can definitely make it happen. I’m going to tell you some key milestones you must hit to launch and grow a podcast to 1,000,000 downloads and beyond. Question...

One of the questions I hear most is "how do I find a mentor?" Mentorship has always been a strange concept to me. For a long time I thought it was common for people to have "official" mentors, but eventually I realized I had never met anyone with an explicit mentor relationship.

Two weeks ago we first wrote about the launch of our new training platform for online business builders in 5 lessons from a $213,000 launch. Today we have 5 more lessons from our launch to share with you. If you're building an online business or launching a new product, this post is for you.

The Sparkline is the blog of Fizzle: honest training + vital community for people who want to build their thing and support themselves. It’s for creatives, makers, artists, hackers, bloggers and internetters willing to dig in and care about the what and why of independent business.